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Monday, June 30, 2014

50 VA Hospital Workers Claim Retaliation For Blowing Whistle On The Horrors They Saw

When Valerie Riviello, a nurse at a Veterans Affairs facility in New York, saw the clinic restrain a sexual assault survivor to a bed for seven consecutive hours, she released the woman.

The next day, Ms. Riviello said, she was removed from her post as senior nurse manager and given a full-time desk job that prohibited her from contact with patients. She eventually was reprimanded and is facing a 30-day unpaid suspension for releasing the woman.

Now, Ms. Riviello is one of more than 50 whistleblowers who say the Veterans Affairs Department retaliated against them for trying to do their jobs.

The complaints got backing last week from the Justice Department’s office of special counsel, which issued a stern warning for the VA to shape up.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

yup free health care food clothes diapers for illegals and f the vets! show just how f'd up this administration and the left are! wake up fools!

Anonymous said...

A 'stern warning' would be losses of jobs w/o retirement benefits and prosecutions. Not something verbal. It's just more DOJ BS from Eric Holder. Leniency is far, far too pervasive among these career criminals and their advocates.

Anonymous said...

This is a disgrace hangings too good for them

Anonymous said...

This is some can of worms here.This could go on for years.